Ontario is building on the Action Plan with a commitment to provide better support for Personal Support Workers to strengthen their recruitment and retention in the home care sector.

The government will also embed meaningful patient engagement in the health care system through enhancements to the Excellent Care for All Act, and will measure progress when it comes to patient relations by hearing and responding to patient complaints in a clear, structured and consistent way across the healthcare system.

Ontario has made significant progress on all of the initiatives set out in the Action Plan, including:

Expanding access to home care for 76,000 more seniors in the past two years.

Passing the Skin Cancer Prevention Act,which restricts the use of tanning beds to youth under 18 years old in Ontario and bans marketing tanning services to youth, to protect them against skin cancer.

Increasing the number of community Health Links to 47 in just over one year, helping improve and better co-ordinate care for patients with complex needs by bringing together health care providers in a community.

Ontario's Action Plan for Health Care is part of the government's economic plan to invest in people, build modern infrastructure and support a dynamic and innovative business climate.

Quick Facts

The federal government has cut Ontario’s transfer payments by $640 million. Ontario is also getting $300 million less than it would have if health care transfers to Ontario had grown by six per cent as they did on average for the rest of the country.

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“We’ve made fundamental changes to how we deliver health care, especially for our growing population of seniors, so that more of them can receive care at home instead of in the hospital or long-term care homes. There is more work to be done, but we will continue to make the tough decisions that result in better care for patients and better value for our precious health care dollars.”